In re Wright
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The first sentence of section 148 of the Judicial Code is as follows: “ When any claim or matter is pending in any of the executive departments which involves controverted questions of fact or law, the head of such department may transmit the same, with the vouchers, papers, documents and proofs pertaining thereto, to the Court of Claims, and the same shall be there proceeded in under such rules as the court may adopt.”
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The first sentence of section 148 of the Judicial Code is as follows: “ When any claim or matter is pending in any of the executive departments which involves controverted questions of fact or law, the head of such department may transmit the same, with the vouchers, papers, documents and proofs pertaining thereto, to the Court of Claims, and the same shall be there proceeded in under such rules as the court may adopt.” This is a part of the act of March 3, 1911, entitled “An act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.” While the…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, Chief Justice
By a letter dated February 28, 1913, the Secretary of the Interior gives a history of the proceeding here involved, stating, among other things, that a petition had been filed in the Interior Department by the complainants herein seeking to have the names of the respondents stricken from the roll of Indians on the White Earth Reservation, and further stating that—
“ In view of the serious controversy- that has arisen out of the foregoing proceedings, after hearing, in the department, the attorneys representing the respondents and representatives of the petitioners as to the proper course of…
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- In Re ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Lau Ow Bew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Matter of HeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- United States Ex Rel. Wilson v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Garfield v. United States Ex Rel. GoldsbySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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